[Xymon] Name instead of IP in hosts.cfg

[Jeremy Ruffer]

Just use 0.0.0.0 for the IP address and it will use DNS.

Regards

Jeremy

On 22 Sep 2016 12:16, "Rolf Schrittenlocher" <schritte at ub.uni-frankfurt.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> in the man-page I read:
>
> "The format of an entry in the hosts.cfg file is as follows:
>
>    IP-address hostname # tag1 tag2 ..."
>
> is there a way to use
>  "hostname hostname # ..." instead?
> Reason is monitoring a service where the IP often changes.
>
> Thanks for help,
> Rolf
>
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